Elsie Marie Leukuma

My Momma

I have come here so many times and never left a word. I could never begin to describe you or how I love you in a million sentences.

I miss you beyone reason. My heart aches to feel your presence beside me...

Thank You for teaching me how to LOVE with my whole heart! Body and Soul. I will forever be your baby.

When you were alive, you were always right there. Even when I tried to get away, be alone. Now you have gone away and you aren't right there with me. And I am alone. I LOVE with everything I have. Thank You for helping me raise your beautiful Grandsons. Your influence will forever be with them.

Love, Your daughter Greta Kae

Greta McClendon

February 21, 2011

My Momma

I have come here so many times and never left a word. I could never begin to describe you or how I love you in a million sentences.

I miss you beyone reason. My heart aches to feel your presence beside me...

Thank You for teaching me how to LOVE with my whole heart! Body and Soul. I will forever be your baby.

When you were alive, you were always right there. Even when I tried to get away, be alone. Now you have gone away and you aren't right there with me. And I am alone. I LOVE with everything I have. Thank You for helping me raise your beautiful Grandsons. Your influence will forever be with them.

Love, Your daughter Greta Kae

Greta McClendon

February 21, 2011

Mama

This is my tribute to you and the life you gave me.

Today I am thinking on how it would have been 80 years almost for you. My 42nd birthday is coming too. It is hard to believe all the things I want to say to you:

1. Thank you for my life. This is the greatest gift anyone could give a person. I have loved every minute of it. If not for you I would not be here. When I was born almost 42 years ago I wish I could remember our first minutes together. This is not possible for me but I am sure they were beautiful.

2. Thank you also for giving me the greatest Dad. He and you I could not have hoped for such loving parents. You both prepared me for my life. I am sorry I was not there at the end for the 2 of you. There is no way after all our years together you did not know how much I loved both of you. It is sad for me that we could not have had longer. We had longer then alot of people have together. It means alot to me Mama as we came so close to losing you in 1978. God gave us 30 more years with you. I love him so much for this. If we had lost you 30 years ago I would not have had all the time I had with you.

3. Wonderful memories with you. They were sometimes short sometimes the time together but very memorable. I loved the short moments with you or when we could longer time. Your smile, your love of life, love for your family. You and I had so much fun and love shared between us. There are times when we would walk somewhere together, caring for me when I was sick, caring for me in just everyday life. You were and are still a wonderful person. Everyday I was proud you were my mother and the memories we shared between us. These were many! I will remember them the rest of my life.

4. Being you and everything about you. Everyday I discover some of the same little quirks in myself. The always wanting to talk with someone, the only thing I do not share is your love of the telephone. I am more like Dad in this sense. The phone makes me nervous to talk on but you loved it. I have never seen someone have such a love of talking on the phone. Sometimes I look in the mirror and see the similarities between us. Every similar I am proud of and it make me still feel my connection to you. Your smile, your love of people and life, never worrying about what could happen. Everything about you there is just too much to say. You are in just one word: WONDERFUL!

Thank you Mama for all this and more. On Christmas on what would have been your 80th birthday. I will think of you and smile and remember all that you left behind. Love you lots Mama.

Your daughter,
Linda Sue

Linda Huber (Daughter)

December 15, 2009

My Grandma

You were my one and only true Grandma and you lived up to that title with ease The love you had for your family shone in every action and, unlike most, you were easy to please

I was always afraid I would live with the regret of not calling as often as I should. I let life get in the way and now that your gone...I really had wished I would.

If I could see you one last time I'd tell you just how much you meant,give you the longest of hugs,and thank you for all the time we spent

I will forever miss your smile, your laugh,your kind and humble waysWill miss reminiscing about the pastand all those crazy days

Will miss your yummy pork chops, potatoes, and the sweetest corn on the cobwill miss truckstop tea and french friesyour youthful love of all things countryand the twinkle in your heavyhearted eyes

I will miss watering your roses and peonieswatching fireworks on your front lawnyour love of second hand stores,pie pit stops, and hoofin' it around town

Will miss your ability to love without judgementand forgive without a thoughtThe abiding love for your family No matter how much we bickered and fought

Will miss your farts in the grocery storeas embarrassing as they could bebecause you taught me life was too short to care what others think

But what I will miss mostis knowing you were always thereI guess I thought somehow you'd live foreverand you being gone is simply too hard to bear

But I hope there is a Heaven and you no longer feel any painwhere you can walk, even run, with abandonand see our faces again

I hope you are sitting beside Grandpa as happy as can be and that you know for certainin our hearts you will always be.

And for when my tomorrow doesn't come please save a seat for me just hope in Heaven they have coconut cream pie and caffeinated tea ;)

From Traci (grandaughter of Elsie)

Linda Huber (Daughter)

July 18, 2009

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Louise Blackledge

December 22, 2008

My First Christmas In Heaven

I see the countless
Christmas trees
around the world below
With tiny lights, like Heaven's stars,
reflecting on the snow

The sight is so spectacular,
please wipe away the tear
For I am spending Christmas with
Jesus Christ this year.

I hear the many Christmas songs
that people hold so dear
But the sounds of music can't compare
with the Christmas choir up here.

I have no words to tell you,
the joy their voices bring,
For it is beyond description,
to hear the angels sing.

I know how much you miss me,
I see the pain inside your heart.
But I am not so far away,
We really aren't apart.

So be happy for me, dear ones,
You know I hold you dear.
And be glad I'm spending Christmas
with Jesus Christ this year.

I sent you each a special gift,
from my heavenly home above.
I sent you each a memory
of my undying love.

After all, love is a gift more precious
than pure gold.
was always most important
the stories Jesus told.

Please love and keep each other,
my Father said to do.
I can't count the blessing or love
has for each of you.

So have a Merry Christmas and
Wipe away that tear
Remember, I am spending Christmas with
Jesus Christ this year

Linda Huber (Daughter)

November 23, 2008

Hold your Mother in your heart until you hold her in your arms again.
I do...

Carole Chick

November 4, 2008

A rose once grew
where all could see,
sheltered beside
a garden wall,
And as the days passed
swiftly by,
it spread its branches, straight and tall...

One day, a beam of light
shone through
a crevice that had
opened wide ~
The rose bent gently
toward its warmth
then passed beyond
to the other side

Now, you who deeply
feel its loss,
be comforted ~ the rose blooms there ~
its beauty even greater now,
nurtured by
God's own loving care.

X X

November 4, 2008

♥♥♥ you only have one mum ♥♥♥

You can only have one mother
patient kind and true,
no other friend in all the world
will be the same to you.
when other friends forsake you
to mother you will return,
for all her loving kindness
she asks nothing in return.
Sweet Jesus, take this message,
to my dear mum up above
tell her how I miss her,
and give her all my love.
remembering her is easy,
I do it every day
but there is an ache within my heart
that will never go away

Tania Heys

November 4, 2008